As with any other pre-production release, caution should be taken when
installing this alpha release on production systems or systems with
critical data. Not all of the features planned for the stable (GA) MariaDB
Connector/ODBC 3.0 release are implemented yet.

MariaDB Connector/ODBC 3.0.0 is built on top of
MariaDB Connector/C 3.0 and uses the
binary prepared statement protocol.

For SQLExecDirect calls it uses the mariadb_stmt_execute_direct MariaDB
C API command, which is faster than using mysql_stmt_prepare + mysql_stmt_execute,
but only with MariaDB 10.2 server.

This release was built with SSL support. You can use SSLKEY, SSLCERT, SSLCA,
SSLCAPATH, SSLCIPHER, SSLVERIFY, SSLCRL and SSLCRLPATH connection string/DSN
options to configure your connection properties.

Internally, Connector/ODBC 3.0 depends much less on Connector/C internal
features than previous versions, with the eventual goal of only using the open
Connector/C API.

Changelog

For a complete list of every change made in this release, with links to
detailed information on each push, see the
changelog.

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